CHANGE LOG / RELEASE NOTES

This is the change log entry of dvd::rip 0.52 including all patch-releases:

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0.52.7 - [stable branch] - Sat Mar 18 2006, joern Bugfixes: - Added a workaround for strange transcode bug with VOB directory input - Backported NPTL-Workaround-Tool-Version-Caching bugfix into stable branch. - NPTL Workaround now disabled by default, because it's in general not necessary anymore with newer transcode releases and makes problems on some platforms. - VCD bitrate calculation wasn't accurate, multiplex reserve wasn't considered. - Adjusted transcode frame count regex to cover new output format of transcode 1.1.x as well. - Applied a patch from Ulrich Spoerlein <q AT galgenberg.net> removing the -ping option from the ImageMagick "identify" calls, since recent ImageMagick versions don't have this option anymore. - Applied minor patches from Ulrich Spoerlein to improve FreeBSD compatability. 0.52.6 - [stable branch] - Sat Jul 23 2005, joern Notes: - Using transcode newer than version 0.6.14 is *not* recommended. At least subtitling is broken for these versions, and it seems there are still several NPTL related issues making problems. Features: - Added LD_ASSUME_KERNEL version number entry to the Preferences dialog extending the NPTL workaround feature introduced in 0.52.4. Initially set to version 2.4.30, since this number seems to be more appropriate, while the prior 2.2.5 made problems at least on Gentoo. Thanks for figuring that out to <robert AT firehead.org>. - Added a "Force slow grabbing" checkbox to the Clip&Zoom page to workaround fast nav seeking problems with some DVD's. Suggested by Ivan Villanueva. - Updated italian translation by Fabio Russo. Bugfixes: - Cluster mode: client/server communication didn't work if the corresponding machines had different endianess (e.g. i686 vs. amd64). Thanks for the report to Benjamin Van Laere <B.VanLaere AT unpeu.com>. - Cluster mode: ogg/vorbis projects didn't work since 0.52.5. Thanks for the reports to Sören Brunk <soerenbrunk AT gmx.de>, Alexander Skwar <listen AT alexander.skwar.name> and Knic Knic <oneeyedelf1 AT hotmail.com>. - Deferred vobsub creation didn't work if dvd::rip was configured to exit after transcoding. Thanks to Ivan Villanueva <dvdrip AT artificialidea.com> for the report. 0.52.5 - [stable branch] - Mon May 16 2005, joern Features: - Updated italian translation from Fabio Russo, which was *one* minute too late for the 0.52.4 release ;) Bugfixes: - Cluster mode: merging PSU chunks for a OGG/Vorbis title failed due to a dumb typo. 0.52.4 - [stable branch] - Mon May 16 2005, joern Features: - Full featured support for BPP (bits per pixel) resp. quality based video bitrate calculation (based on a request by Daniel Faber <mail AT daniel-faber.de>): - Permanent display of the bpp value on the transcode tab in a combo box - BPP value may be edited, video bitrate is recalculated accordingly, a list of reasonable preset values is available for convenience. BPP and bitrate follow changes of the frame size immediately. - A new preset "Default BPP" (in the misc section) is used by default for newly ripped titles once set. - Bitrate calculation sheet now shows different calculations depending on whether a manual bitrate was set or not. Suggested by Daniel Faber. - Subtitle preview improved; old tedious test transcoding dropped, instead you can open a realtime transcode preview window straight from the Subtitle tab without opening the transcode Filter dialog first. Movie starts with a leadtime of 15 seconds before the first subtitle timestamp. - Keyframe interval can be edited on the transcode page. transcode defaults internally to 250, now you can change this (dvd::rip defaults to 50). - Added a patch from Larry Siden <lsiden AT gmail.com> which makes dvd::rip compatible with dvdrecord. Just select "dvdrecord" as the CD burning command (a correspondent preset was added) and dvd::rip will generate a proper command line for dvdrecord. - Added DVD device placeholder %d to the DVD player command template and extended the xine and mplayer default commands accordingly. This is necessary if DVD devices located at a different path as the /dev/dvd default. - dvd::rip now workarounds transcode NPTL bugs by setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL. If you encounter problems with this you can switch this off in the Preferences / Misc section. - Cluster mode - Execute jobs with umask 0002. This helps solving permission problems, if commands are executed by different users on the nodes. With this umask the correponding users merely need to be in the same group. Based on a request from Triffid Hunter <triffid_hunter AT funkmunch.net>. - Don't log fping command. It's useless and too noisy. - Set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL on the nodes as well if set on the master. Bugfixes: - mplayer CVS versions are now recognized properly. A CVS version always satisfies the dependency module, assuming people using CVS versions know what they're doing ;) Thanks for reports and hints to Philippe Monroux <monroux-listes AT wanadoo.fr>, Christian Marillat and Fabio Russo. - xvid4conf didn't read the defauls properly from ~/.transcode/xvid4.cfg, looks like ~ isn't substituted, although this is xvid4conf's own default. Now dvd::rip passes the full path. - Filters didn't work since 0.52.3. Thanks for the report to Christian Marillat. - Combo box tooltips didn't appear in the Preferences dialog. - OGG overhead wasn't calculated correctly if a frame range was set. Thanks for the report to Daniel Faber. - Filter preview window: fixed a race condition when starting transcode; now wait max. 10 seconds on transcode startup using a Glib timer. Thanks for the bug report to Mathias Anselmann <M.Anselmann AT web.de>. - Cluster mode: when merging video chunks of a PSU in an OGG/Vorbis project the progress information was missing. 0.52.3 - [stable branch] - Sun Mar 13 2005, joern Features - Updated french translation from Christophe Combelles <ccomb AT free.fr> - Skip 1st pass (if "reuse log" is checked) even if Ogg/Vorbis vbr audio is enabled. Bugfixes: - PCM passthrough didn't work. - Newer transcode release seem not to need -d for PCM audio tracks anymore, so it's used only with versions < 0.6.13. - Mistaken switch to RGB color space if audio only filters are added to the filter chain. Reported by Dag Rune Sneeggen <contactus AT dudcore.net>. - Applied a patch from Fabio Russo fixing a potential problem with mplayer playback of DVD titles with an audio codec reported by transcode as 'mpeg1', although neither Fabio nor I ever had such a DVD in the hand ;) - Removed POSIX::setlocale(), since it's not necessary and probably the reason for a crash on Mandrake. 0.52.2 - [stable branch] - Sun Jan 9 2005, joern Bugfixes: - Missed adding Italian and Serbin translation files to the distribution tarball. 0.52.1 - [stable branch] - Sun Jan 9 2005, joern Features: - Italian translation added by Fabio Russo and Costantino. 0.52.0 - [stable branch] - Tue Jan 4 2005, joern Notes: - This is just a stable release of 0.51.4. Only change is that the suggested transcode minimum version is 0.6.14. - For changes since the last stable release 0.50.18 please refer to the change log entries of the 0.51 branch.